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Posted on 03/17/2009 5:37:21 PM PDT by sionnsar
Yes, there were numerous factors leading to the death of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. TV with its 24/7 news channels, Al Gore's World Wide Web with free access to newspapers local and national, rising costs, competition from the "P.I in the mirror" Seattle Times all helped doom the paper even in a liberal market like Seattle. When all the reasons are finally cataloged, they should include the Letters to the Editor section in what turns out to be the final Sunday edition (March 15, 2009) of the P.I. It contains a couple of "Good riddance, the P.I. is too liberal for me" letters but it was the lead letter, captioned "Idiots deserve their fate," that caught my eye.
Editor,
So sad to see the P-I winding down. Every day there's less and less to read. But it's so hard to run a business these days, isn't it? What with over taxation, overregulation, extortionist lawsuits, runaway liability expenses, hostile labor unions, it's a miracle any business in King County survives. And the P-I, after all, is only a business.
But wait a minute.
Haven't the editorial pages of your newspaper always been for more taxes, for more business regulation, for more reasons to sue a business, for stronger labor unions, for anything and everything that makes running a business the arduous and thankless chore it has become? Yes, I do believe that's true.
So, maybe, just maybe, you idiots richly deserve the fate that awaits you. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Jeffrey Weiser
Redmond
The New York Times, the Los Angels Times and the Seattle Times should keep their eye on "them chickens, don't ya' think?".
GREAT letter!
How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!
A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,
Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
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We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
right on Jeffrey from Redmond!
Them dang karmic chickens.
Talk about OWNAGE!
“Yes, there were numerous factors leading to the death of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. TV with its 24/7 news channels, Al Gore’s World Wide Web with free access to newspapers local and national, rising costs, competition from the “P.I in the mirror” Seattle Times all helped doom the paper even in a liberal market like Seattle”
the #1 reason? Liberals don’t bother reading anymore. They get all their news from the Daily Show and MTV.
When the FBI asks you to post pictures of “persons of interest” in terrorist surveillance and you refuse to do so, you lose public support. No matter what the politics, who wants to read a newspaper that doesn’t care about your safety?
Jeffrey gets it.
The Seattle Times was the infamous editorial staff that celebrated Karl Rove’s resignation. I’ll be praying for their demise..
The PI achieved some national notoriety in recent years as chronicled on The O’Reilly Factor.
Seattle PI: Too liberal for Seattle.
An absolutely great letter which should be reprinted in every remaining newspaper in America. On the other hand, the guy who wrote the letter is now in line to be the next ‘Joe the Plumber’. Honesty is a dangerous endeavor these days...
Tears By Me Out The Heart
Under their Joint Operating Agreement with the Times, both papers were marketed together. So we would get calls trying to sign us up for one or the other.
I had given up on both of them a long time ago, but we have a parrot and a puppy. So My wife was talking to them and asked me which one I preferred. I told her to ask them “Which one is more absorbent”
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I really had a hard time not going down to the building and doing the happy dance as they locked the door.
LOL. That would have been funny.
You know I have been wondering how all the liberal media outlets have been losing readers, viewers and advertisers while liberals still get elected. I think you have hit the nail onh the head.
In the South end they loved being the only paper and charging outrageous prices for ads. The auto dealers used to on occasion pull all their ads and go to the radio for advertising but always had to come back. The paper LOVED it. Then of course the biased reporting.
A friend of ours one of the last to voluntarily leave tried to suggest survival techniques with the growing popularity of the internet and the increasing number of new, younger readership but they rejected the ideas because after all like all liberals, they are superior in intelligence. It won't be long and they too shall pass. I just hope my retirement is secure.
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